tannery
Americannoun
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tanneries
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tannery
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at tan 1, -ery
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It was the law of the blocked road and the fouled well—a pig loose on the highway, a tannery poisoning a shared stream, gunpowder stored where it might ignite and level the block.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Carlson’s adoptive father, a tannery manager, died when he was 12.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
The Cantonese migrants worked in carpentry and the ship-fitting industry, while the Hakka Chinese worked in the tannery and food business.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
Nova Kaeru tannery bought the skins — the first buyer the communities had — and today their most important one.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
It was a fine, peaceful morning, not a sound from the tannery, which for one blessed day in the week closed down completely.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
The city is Morocco’s most widely visited destination, known for its palaces, spice markets, tanneries and Jemaa El Fna, its noisy square full of food vendors and musicians.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Pittards, based in Yeovil, Somerset, was founded in 1826 and has tanneries in Ethiopia.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2023
As for water, urban factories, slaughterhouses, and tanneries often dumped waste directly into nearby bodies of water.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The analysis took a look at the last links of the long, complicated supply chain for leather goods — tanneries, leather processors, and manufacturers.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2021
We soon had left behind us the warehouses and the reeking tanneries, and traversed pastureland on muddy tracks.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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